Strategic European partnerships for UK universities post-Brexit: navigating a globally contested field of world-class universities

Highman, Ludovic, Marginson, Simon and Papatsiba, Vassiliki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-1162 2023. Strategic European partnerships for UK universities post-Brexit: navigating a globally contested field of world-class universities. Tertiary Education and Management 29 (3) , pp. 295-314. 10.1007/s11233-023-09123-0

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Abstract

This paper assesses how UK universities seek to maintain their global dominant position post-Brexit through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key European institutions as part of their internationalisation strategies. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interviews conducted from November 2017 to July 2018 in 12 UK universities vertically differentiated and spread along the highly hierarchised spectrum of British universities in all four nations, we aim to examine which types of universities are most inclined to form international comprehensive university-wide strategic partnerships, and how they identify their partners. The analysis is framed within Bourdieu’s theory of “economy of practices” which considers all university practices as economic practices that are ultimately tailored towards maximising either material or symbolic profit. Unlike in business and industry, where organisations traditionally compete to maximise profit, universities must both compete and collaborate with one another in order to improve (or maintain) their position in the field. UK universities will need to navigate the post-Brexit space they find themselves thrown into, and in the process will need to review international institutional links with both European Union (EU) based and non-EU universities. This paper will assess how UK universities seek to maintain their dominant position in the field through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key foreign institutions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1358-3883
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 July 2023
Date of Acceptance:	19 April 2023
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2024 10:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161068

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